Analysis: "Trump's War on Education"

""Trump’s assault on education comes out of the playbook used by all authoritarian regimes."

Read by Eunice Wong

https://chrishedges.substack.com/p/trumps-war-on-education-read-by-eunice

#trump #useducation #uspol #autocracy #racism #oligarchy .

Quid pro quo…
#putin dangles a carrot to #musk. What will Putin get in return? #ukraine still relies on Musk’s #starlink. What would happen if he just turned it off or shared intel with Putin?
#oligarchy #fascism #antifa #eattherich #europe #russia

https://www.reuters.com/world/europe/putin-envoy-says-russia-could-supply-small-nuclear-power-plant-musks-mars-2025-03-27/

#uspol #fascism #oligarchy #maga #coup

The Contrarian covers the Democracy Movement: Thursday: Protestors ask for the return of "detained" Tufts University student Rumeysa Ozturk, a protest against #austerity in #Chicago, scenes from #Turkey, and more.

#TheContrarian #protest #RumeysaOzturk #Tesla #trump #democracy #oligarchy
https://contrarian.substack.com/p/the-contrarian-covers-the-citizens

With some intrinsic flaws in dictators you can do whatever you want with the same outcome: unreasonable aggression and even self-harm. [sic #trump & #putin ]

There wasn't nor isn't anything that will prevent their aggression against democratic institutions since they view them as threat to their power.

#Politics #PoliticOfAggression #Democracy #Autocracy #MalignantNarcissism #Sociopaths #Gluttony #Greed #Oligarchy #Kleptocracy #Oppression #megalomania

In case you haven't noticed, or paid attention, or maybe been in a #TrumpVirus / #GQP #media induced coma....

>> The Trump administration is descending into authoritarianism

https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2025/mar/22/trump-administration-authoritarianism

> From media to culture and the arts to the refusal to abide by court orders, we’re nearing ‘Defcon 1 for our democracy’, experts

#fascism #DOGE #Muskville #GQP #oligarchy #plutocracy #Project2025 #coup - Full-tilt war on #truth - #democracy - #respect for #law

Following #Trump’s shameful #Tesla advert on the WH lawn last week, US #Commerce Secy #HowardLutnick used a TV appearance to urge Americans to buy stock in #ElonMusk's company.

Cabinet secretaries *don't typically* [NEVER] recommend individual stocks, much less those linked to the president's closest adviser.

#kleptocracy #oligarchy #broligarchy
https://www.axios.com/2025/03/20/tesla-musk-lutnick

“What once seemed like a fringe theory is now being carried out by the corporate powers that have wholly captured our government.”
—Gil Duran, 'Reboot' Revealed: Elon Musk's CEO-Dictator Playbook
#musk #oligarchy #broligarchy #techbros

Bernie and AOC are now speaking to a crowd of 23,000 in Tucson, bringing their crowd total from the last few days to 86k people.

#trump #musk #doge #oligarchy #medicaid

https://www.instagram.com/p/DHhAEULScdA/

So #ElonMusk went after a depository of carefully preserved #seeds and #plants and fired the #scientists who look after them, putting at risk one of the world's sources of #genetic #diversity for #crops.
And this #NYT article complains only about the #danger for Americans. 🤦🏽‍♂️
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/22/opinion/doge-elon-musk-usda-crops.html?unlocked_article_code=1.504.kCEk.N097nAkPJN0u&smid=nytcore-android-share

#capitalism #techbros #oligarchy #doge #fascism #stupidity #science #food

Vivian Jenna Wilson - Elon Musk’s Estranged Daughter: Protecting Trans Youth; Taking on the Right
https://www.teenvogue.com/story/vivian-jenna-wilson-elon-musk-trans-youth

"He's a pathetic man-child."

* Teen Vogue special issue cover story
* 20-yo daughter talks about Trump2 regime; being a trans woman

#TransLivesMatter
#Trump #fascism #Musk #ElonMusk #Christofascism #transgenocide #whiteSupremacism #oligarchy

#USpolitics #TrumpProtests #Bernie #Oligarchy

[0]"Bernie Sanders: "How We Respond Together to This Moment..." [1:05 min]
by Fight Oligarchy

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDd77CSDnIk

Quote by FO:
"Mar 12, 2025
Bernie Sanders continues his "Fighting Oligarchy" tour, speaking to a large crowd in Altoona, WI."

#USbeware #FascistsAreHere #TimeToResist
#CapitalismIsFailingYou

This has been making the rounds. Yup!
#Tianamen #Resist #TeslaDealership #FuckTesla #PresidentMusk #Oligarchy

Timothy Snyder: "The federal government is undertaking to deport Mahmoud Khalil, a Columbia University graduate, on the grounds that as a student he led protests against the Israeli assault on Gaza. There is no accusation that Khalil committed a crime. He is being singled out, in what amounts to a test case for American authoritarianism as a whole, for the expression of his views.'

https://substack.com/home/post/p-159072868 #MahmoudKhalil #Trump #Musk #coup #ICE #politics #fascism #oligarchy #kleptocracy

It seems that the method in the madness of the current US government is this. Crash the stock market and fire all the public workers. Then the billionaires can buy all the stocks at bargain prices and build environmentally disastrous industries with as few employees and as much AI and robots as possible. 99% of US Americans will live in poverty and ill-health.

#Project2025 #Trump #SpaceKaren #SpaceNazi #oligarchy

Whereas workers paid an increasing tax burden through payroll taxes, corporations and wealthy families saw theirs drop by half or more. Even as the percentage of income and wealth at the top of the American distribution increased, the percentage of tax expected from the most fortunate decreased.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom
#usa #capitalism #oligarchy #tax

At the same time, the United States was very weak on the basic policies that stabilized middle classes elsewhere: retirement pensions, public education, public transport, health care, paid vacation, and parental leave.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom
#usa #capitalism #oligarchy

In the 1980s, the federal government weakened the position of trade unions. … The productivity of the American workforce grew…at about 2% a year, but the wages of traditional workers increased more slowly, if at all. Over the same period, the pay of executives increased, sometimes drastically.
—Timothy Snyder, The Road To Unfreedom
#usa #capitalism #oligarchy

#Republicans continue to bet on "hope" for US #stockmarket recovery later this year, based on #corporate #tax cuts as welfare for the #oligarchy.

"#Trump loves the Gilded Age and its tariffs. It was a great time for the rich but not for the many."
#history
#tariff
#tarrifs
#recession
#inflation
#premarket
https://apnews.com/article/trump-tariffs-gilded-age-mckinley-grover-cleveland-1592dab80ad7159266db51b5baa774b6
@histodons

#theft #robbery #crime #classwar #oligarchy #oligarchs

Watch #Bernie go!!!!

#Oligarchy #F47 #MeidasTouch

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6zSrXBg1NTU

https://substack.com/home/post/p-158103394

#WaPo #Bezos #FuckBezos #tech #media #censorship #oligarchy #politics

What it looks like when #billionaires and their #GOP minions rule.

Explode the #deficit with a tax cut for the obscenely wealthy while slashing #Medicaid and #education

File this under: Let’s pull the ladder up

#Plutocracy #Oligarchy #USPolitics

https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/02/21/upshot/house-gop-budget-blueprint.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

"On Wednesday, Amazon founder, billionaire, Washington Post owner, and newfound Trump supplicant Jeff Bezos made an announcement that shook the media world and heralded the death of corporate media. ...

We should have known this day was coming the moment Bezos bought the paper. Corporate-owned media is doomed to fail."

~ Dan Pfeiffer

#Trump #Bezos #WashingtonPost #billionaires #EconomicElites #oligarchy #media
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https://www.messageboxnews.com/p/jeff-bezos-makes-a-damning-case-against

Ein freies und offenes Internet mit den #Techbros und der #Trump Administration ist eine Illusion. Die Frage müsste lauten: wie bewahren wir trotz der #Oligarchie ein freies Internet?
#oligarchy #internet #participation #civilrights

”All three of these men [Jeff Bezos, Elon Musk & Mark Zuckerberg] were in the first row at Trump’s inauguration. They, and other billionaires, have now exposed themselves for what they are. … They are supporting a tyrant who is promising them tax cuts and regulatory rollbacks that will make them even richer… When billionaires take control of our communication channels, it’s not a win for free speech.”
—Robert Reich
https://robertreich.substack.com/p/its-the-oligarchy-stupid
#trump #bezos #musk #zuckerberg #oligarchy

Jeff Stein, Dave Jorgenson en alle journalisten en medewerkers zouden solidair moeten zijn met David Shipley en Ann Telnaes, en ontslag moeten nemen. Je kunt onmogelijk staande houden dat als Jeff Bezos zich maar niet met jouw kleine aandeel in #WaPo bemoeit, het verder ok is en je 'gewoon' je werk kan blijven doen. #FuckBezos #journalistiek #media #oligarchy

https://nos.nl/artikel/2557430-bezos-wil-koers-opiniepagina-the-washington-post-wijzigen-chef-stapt-op

"Today, Jeff Bezos, the second richest person in America, who bought the Washington Post in 2013, announced that the paper’s opinion section would henceforth focus on defending “personal liberties and free markets.”

Anything inconsistent with this view would not be published. “Viewpoints opposing those pillars will be left to be published by others.”

The Post’s opinion editor, David Shipley, promptly resigned, as he should."

https://substack.com/home/post/p-157172681 #Bezos #WaPo #oligarchy #politics #media

So yeah. We're up against #ErikPrince and his forces now. You know, the folks who weaponize #cropdusters, espouse #killerdrones, and want to spy on everyone! YIKES!
#BigBrother is #BigOilAndGas and #Oligarchy
#ErikPrinceColonialism #CorporateColonialism #CorporateFascism!

Sign Petition to Ban Platform X (formerly Twitter) in the European Union
https://chng.it/LgSLGZ7G7G

#X #SocialMedia #BanX #ElonMusk #oligarchy #USpol #USpolitics #FarRight #AltTech #Twitter #EU #EuropeanUnion

From the convicted #felon who blamed the Capitol police for the #Jan6th violence, coming now to #CorporateMedia outlets near you: a new breathtaking special of unabashed lying, blaming #Ukraine for getting invaded by Russia. #Corporate #media is as usual focused on their profit margins and enabling the #oligarchy that its owners want, so they will faithfully repeat the lies enough times to give them the ring of familiarity.

#PutinsWar #UsefulIdiot #Trump

"The Lorax and the Chippity Chop"

#billionaires #antifaAF #Oligarchy #oligarchs

#ClarenceThomas secretly attended fundraising event for group pushing cases before the court, new report says

The #Koch network is frequently behind cases before the court, including a closely watched challenge this term that could upend decades of precedent.

by Kelsey Reichmann, Sep 22, 2023

"Thomas’ attendance at the Koch network fundraiser is coupled with his failure to disclose the trip. Ethics experts called on the Judicial Conference — the rulemaking group for federal courts — to refer Thomas’ disclosure lapses to Attorney General Merrick Garland.

"'The law is very clear,' Gabe Roth, executive director at Fix the Court, said in an email. 'The Judicial Conference must refer to the Attorney General 'any individual' for which there is 'reasonable cause to believe' that 'information required to be reported' in their disclosure has not been reported. We're far past 'reasonable cause' territory.'

"Thomas’ failure to disclose other gifts from #billionaires has already been reported to the Judicial Conference, however no action has been taken by the group.

"According to ProPublica, the Palm Springs event was just one instance the Koch brothers rubbed elbows with the conservative justice. The trio all took regular trips to an exclusive all-male retreat in California, Bohemian Grove. Thomas is said to attend the camp as Crow’s guest. Other attendees at the retreat include #Blackwater founder #ErikPrince, George H.W. Bush, and Nancy Pelosi’s husband, Paul Pelosi."

https://www.courthousenews.com/clarence-thomas-secretly-attended-fundraising-event-for-group-pushing-cases-before-the-court-new-report-says/

#SCOTUS #Oligarchy ##Corporatocracy
#Corruption

A shadowy and controversial secret club meets in the California woods every year — and at least 5 US presidents were members

by Áine Cain
Mar 11, 2018,

"George H.W. #Bush joined the club in 1973, while chairing the Republican National Committee during the Watergate scandal.

"Domhoff writes that Bush belonged to a camp called Hill Billies, along with top executives from #BankOfAmerica, #GeneralMotors, and #ProcterAndGamble.

"Bush also brought along a future president as a guest on one trip to Bohemian Grove. He introduced his son — George W. Bush — at a lakeside talk in 1995, saying that he'd make a great president, according to Domhoff."

https://www.businessinsider.com/bohemian-grove-club-us-presidents-2018-3?op=1#george-h-w-bush-bunked-with-executives-from-influential-companies-7

#BohemianGrove #Oligarchy
#Corporatocracy
#Corruption #Koch #Blackwater

Well, well, well... It seems we've come full circle, eh?

#ClarenceThomas secretly participated in #Koch network donor events

Thomas has attended at least two Koch donor summits, helping a political network that has brought cases to #SCOTUS

By Joshua Kaplan - Justin Elliott - Alex Mierjeski
Published September 22, 2023

"Thomas' involvement in the events is part of a yearslong, personal relationship with the Koch brothers that has remained almost entirely out of public view. It developed over years of trips to the #BohemianGrove, a secretive all-men's retreat in Northern California. Thomas has been a regular at the Grove for two decades, where he stayed in a small camp with real estate billionaire #HarlanCrow and the Kochs, according to records and people who've spent time with him there.

"The Grove is an exclusive, two-week party held in the Sonoma County redwoods every July. A member or his guest can wander from the Grove's shooting range to a lecture by #Blackwater founder #ErikPrince, or from a mint julep party to a performance by the Grove's symphony orchestra. Wine, sometimes at $500 a bottle, flows freely, and late at night, members consume clam chowder and chili by the gallon. More than one attendee recalled walking outside in the morning to find a former cabinet secretary who fell asleep drunk in the grass.

"There's a saying among the Bohemians, as the club's members call themselves: The only place you should be publicly associated with the Grove is in your obituary. That privacy is paramount, members said, in part to allow the powerful to speak freely — and party — without worrying about showing up in the press. Only designated photographers are allowed to take pictures. Cellphones are strictly forbidden.

"Members typically must pay thousands of dollars to bring a guest. Several people ProPublica spoke to said that before the pandemic, they saw Thomas there just about every year. ProPublica was able to confirm six trips Thomas took to the retreat that he didn't disclose. Flight records suggest Crow has repeatedly dispatched his private jet to Virginia to pick up Thomas and ferry him to the Sonoma County airport and back, usually for a long weekend in the middle of the Grove festival."

https://www.salon.com/2023/09/22/clarence-thomas-secretly-participated-in-koch-network-donor-events_partner/

#Oligarchy #Corporatocracy #Corruption

I listened to a very informative YouTube video today (and looked up some stuff). Oh boy...! A LOT to unpack. We all have some decisions to make soon. Life or death stuff (unless the courts or congress does the right thing). After what I've heard and read today, I am convinced that #Trump is a #Putin asset, as is #TulsiGabbard and #ErikPrince. And their goal is to suppress the #Resistance. And it seems that #BillClinton, #BarackObama and #JoeBiden did NOTHING to prevent what Trump is attempting to do, even though they could have... (And don't get me started as to why they didn't codify #RoeVsWade or #EqualRights or a number of other things when they had the chance...) Anyhow, I'll try to remember to use #USPol, but I might forget. But yeah... Wow... Where to even begin... (Maybe I'll start with the YouTube video)
#Fascism #AuthoritarianRule #Oligarchy #CorporateColonialism #VeryBad!

The first part of a serie #blogs I intent to publish about #Trump I'm using my knowledge about narcissistic behaviour to analyse the way he works. It's in Dutch but you can translate. Please help me with feedback #narcissism #oligarchy #maga www.facebook.com/share/p/161c...

Redirecting...

"From Elon #Musk’s hostile takeover of core government functions, to the #Trump family's vision for remaking #Gaza into another Dubai, we are witnessing the extension of corporate power across the globe at an unprecedented pace."

An emergency town hall via #HaymarketBooks w/ Naomi Klein, Chenjerai Kumanyika, Astra Taylor, and Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor

https://youtu.be/iyLiNN_NMO4
#USpol #USpolitics #MAGA #oligarchy #droitisation #USleft #AmericanLeft #leftActivism #politicalActivism #antifascism